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High Quality B-sides / rares

Hi all,

I downloaded loads of rares and b-sides ages ago and converted them to 128kbps for my iPod as iTunes told me that was CD quality. I've since learnt a lot more about music formats and know that 128kbps is far from CD quality! If i could, I'd buy the CD's that the rare and b-side tracks appear on and rip them in ALAC, but some CD's obviously aren't available.

Does anyone have a link to rares and b-sides that are in decent quality to download? I'm interested in the studio stuff like hand grenades, totalimmortal, bloodstains etc rather than the live stuff like territorial pissings. All the links I've come across are old and don't work anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If this sort of thing violates forum regs then obviously don't post any links! I'm just a fan trying to get hold of stuff that's not easily available (I own all of their album releases on CD already).

Most of us downloaded our copies from the same sources. Nearly everything I've got is 128kbps (i've never converted any of it). I don't think you will find much that is higher without it having been artificially increased. I downloaded most of them seven or eight years ago. Unless you can find somebody with the originals, i doubt you will do much better.

Originally Posted by Little_Miss_1565

Or what? Or you'll leave as soon as someone returns your rudeness and delete all your posts? I'm so scared.

Hmm... I do have the 'Totalimmortal' and 'I Wanna Be Sedated' promo discs. And of course the Club Me cd, like everybody else. If you want any of that ripped, just let me know.

It would be absolutely amazing if you could upload these for me, I'd be incredibly grateful! Could you rip them in iTunes using the ALAC codec? The files would be larger than mp3 or AAC, but there would be no loss of quality from the CD that way.